BACKSTORY Thanks to assurances by Israeli-centric Cong Robert Wexler (ousted from office under a cloud), TURKEY received $21 billion economic/military US foreign aid. The US Dept of state reported Dec 2011 that as part of the cooperative effort to further Turkish economic and military self-reliance, the United States has loaned and granted Turkey more than $7 billion in economic aid and more than $14 billion in military assistance over several years.
As one sage opined: "Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdogan reminds us, in his region, democracy is a bus you get off when it reaches your stop."
America needs to disentangle itself from the neocon stranglehold----we dont need a foreign policy rooted in yesterday’s dollar-draining dreams of global democracy.....and other cockamamie policies fomented by the pukerneos.
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REFERENCE Your tax dollars at work, thanks to the pukeneos.
(1) The US stupidly gave Pakistan billions in the wake of 911----the country that was openly harboring Bin Laden. Despite all its advanced technology, Israel "did not know" Bin Laden was in their neighborhood? And isn't it nice that a tiny country like Israel--- surrounded by enemies---has zillions of dollars to conduct these costly activities--- as US citizens struggle to survive?
(2) TURKEY received $21 billion economic/military US foreign aid....thanks to neocons. The US Dept of state ----duped by neocons----reported Dec 2011 that as part of their stupid cooperative effort to further Turkish economic and military self-reliance, the United States stupidly loaned and granted Turkey more than $7 billion in economic aid and more than $14 billion in military assistance over several years......So much for "peace"....Turkey is now getting ready to acquire nuclear weapons. Despite all its advanced technology, Israel did not know this?
(3) Neocons duped the US into pouring trillions into Afghanistan.....the most corrupt area on the globe. The Bank of Kabul is engaged in massive fraud---the bank where the US deposits billions of US tax dollars to run the war----if you are "connected" you can withdraw billions with no responsibility to pay it back. Afghan Pres Karzhai was seen loading billions of US dollars to transport out of the country .
SUMMATION US citizens are being extorted at the pump as the US leaves Iraq with no promise of oil (having spent trillions of US dollars there, leaving rivers of young US blood). Yet, according to the WSJ, conniving neocons are starting their own oil company in Iraq. The cost is immense----facilitated by n/c Richard Perle's war profiteering. Your tax dollars at work.
NOTE There is nothing in the US Constitution that says US citizens should go broke while foreign loyalists and their countries get rich on our tax dollars.
“BACKSTORY Thanks to assurances by Israeli-centric Cong Robert Wexler (ousted from office under a cloud), TURKEY received $21 billion economic/military US foreign aid. The US Dept of state reported Dec 2011 that as part of the cooperative effort to further Turkish economic and military self-reliance, the United States has loaned and granted Turkey more than $7 billion in economic aid and more than $14 billion in military assistance over several years.”
Israel and Turkey haven’t been on speaking terms since about 2009. Turkey under Erdogan has become chummy with Iran, Hamas, Hizbollah and Syria, and somehow a congressmen whom you characterize as Israel-centric is handing them huge gobs of cash; in 2011 $21B! Israel gets $3B a year for not going to war with Egypt, and we never hear the end of it. Turkey gets seven times that much despite its disavowal of secular democracy, closer ties with terror sponsors and terrorists, and more in the pipeline to help them grow “self-reliant”?!
Israel needs to find better friends than either the US or Turkey, imho. The US is full of good people with good will, and is still the strongest country in the world, but...pardon me for saying it...YOU’RE ALL NUTS! Keep your money. Keep the strings it comes with. Keep Turkey the hell away from us, I don’t care how much money you offer them to make nice while they systematically stab the US, Israel and NATO in the back.
Let them make war on us, and we’ll arrange a “right of return” for all the Armenians whose land they stole. We’ll “end the occupation” of Cyprus. We’ll “stop the oppression” of the Kurdish people. As for Turkey itself? Good riddance. Whatever’s left of it can become the “Palestinian homeland”.
There. Done freaking out. $21B in aid. unbe-freakin’-lievable.